The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-23
Local and state Notes.


Two of the new heavy switching Brooks en-
gines for the c., H. & /. will be placed in the In
dianapolis yards next month.
The Baltimore q Ohio Express Company will,
on Monday next, put a messenger the c., III.
81 ]. train out of here for Cincinnati at 6:35
The actual earnings of the Decline for April
are Just made public, showing an increase over
the earnings of April, 1886, of s49,7l0
The L.. N. A. & c. earned. the second week
in June. $44, PA an increase over the earnings
of the corresponding week of 1886 Of 81, 293.
The c., II. g. D. was operated last year on
60 81 per cent. Of its gross earnings. the c., FL.
& l. division on SO per cent of its gross earn
ings
on 500 coal cars for the c. II. d D., and will
build 200 more box cars for this road soon
the coal cars are completed.
The meeting of the general managers of the
roads in the Central Traffic Association which
convenes to-day in Chicago will be the first
held since early April. just after the new inter
state law went into effect
The Pennsylvania Company have decided to
make a second Cresson at Felician Park, Rock
Point, in the Beaver valley. The company will
at commence the erection of large hotel
at that point to furnish accommodations for
tourists.
II. H. Poppleton, general council Of the c.. c.,
e. & l. company, is in Washington, d. c., look
Ing after the Bee-lne's interest in the complaint
of discriminate against it and other roads be-
fore the commission preferred by the Burton
Car Company.
repeating Office between the general Offices
of the c., Fl. & d. and the Vandala was yester
day established at the T. Fl. 81 ]. freight depot,
ana Charles Irwin, OF the Vandalias old
time operators, was put in charge. Mr.. Irwin,
Tor some years past has been engaged In mer-
camille pursuits iii northern Michigan.
The brakemen are having uphill work in es-
tabishing divisions of the National Brother
hood, and il would be well tor the conductors to
give them little advice and encouragement.
The locomotive fremen took counsel from the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and have
been successful. and none better pleased over
their prosperity than the engineers.
An elderly gentleman residing in Clay county.
who held 270 shares of the original stock of the
Terre Haute e Indianapolis road. became some
what alarmed day or two before Mr. McKeen
sold his stock to the Ives Staynor syndicate, and
ran down to Terre Haute to what he could
do with his holding. Mr.. Mckeen offered him
100 for il and he accepted the offer
Whatever the future of the Vandalia may be,
n little investigation will show that the Ives
Staynor syndicate secured the property very
reasonable figures not paying so much by $780,.
900 for the Terre Haute e. Indianapolis, the
Terre Haute 81 Logansport aud the lease of the
Vandalia as did the Lake Erie 81 Western people
pay for the Indianapolis, Peru g. Chicago.
The Union Railway Company, the express
companies or the city police should see that the
immense piles of empty beer-kegs. hen-coops
and berry drawers are occasionally cleared at
the east end of the depot. After they have
stood there for week At a time the odors be-
come obnoxious and almost unbearable besides
preston of the city.
To look at the east bound passenger trains
the Bee-line one might easily come TO the
conclusion that they running for the
special benefit of school harms" and mothers
with large families of children who return
inc to their New England homes to spend the
summer. Sections and state are crowded
daily to their utmost capacity, and on most
trains an extra sleeping coach is
The National Benefit Association has recently
secured the accident insurance business of thir-
teen roads in this State. A few years ago bus
few avaed themselves of the benefits these
sociatious offer. Now the railroad man who does
not carry a policy in some company is difficult to
find In some cases the railroads make it one of
the conditions which they employ men for
hazardous positions that they shall carry
policy.
the c. L. ST. L. 81 Q. In commenting upon il,
X r. Cable one of the directors says that
few Cincinnati parties needed money and sold
their stock, but says there is no ground for
weakness, in the first SIX months or the year
The road earned sufficient to pay per cent.
dividend on the stock, and the big end of the
gear is yet to come After this year he will
favor paying a per cent dividend
Within a few days a general change in running
trains The Vandalia will be made. Two
solid trains each way are TO be put on between
St. Louis and Cincinnati, and the trains OF the
Peunsylvau.a lines are to be run separately from
those of the O., H. a D. in every case An Off
says that every facility possible 10 10 De OF
fered the Pennsylvania in the running or their
trains. ard the arrangements, when perfected.
will render the train service over the Vandaa
more acceptable TO all parties interested.
Friends of the Terre Haute 81 Southwestern
road are engaged in southern Illinois In work
lag nj an interest in the project. No trouble
will be experienced in getting the right Of way